Look Out for These Nasty Ingredients in Prepared Vegetarian and Vegan Foods
Yes, the word “food” deserves to be put in quotation marks here. The word “product” is really more applicable in this case. Prepared vegetarian and vegan edibles are engineered products, which technically can be digested by the human body and may provide some excuse for nutritional fuel, but they don’t come close to real, whole, natural food. Let’s take a...
The Mind and Kelee® Meditation
We have all, in our lives, experienced emotions well up from inside. And it is often difficult to understand why certain feelings come up when they do, especially when those feelings are negative. We don’t tend to worry about the good feelings we have — they are easy to live with — but what about the bad ones? How do...
Soaking and Sprouting to Combat Phytates and Lectins
Many of the foods we consume on a daily basis are actually the reproductive unit of an organism. Grains, seeds, nuts and legumes are all the “baby” of the plant, put forth into the world to propagate that particular species. Like a chicken’s egg with its shell, plant babies also have protective mechanisms in place to help them survive and...
Time to Nip Your Springtime Allergies in the Bud
While medications are readily available and generally affordable to fight allergies, there is a big price to pay for their convenience. Synthetic medications come with a number of side effects that can negatively affect your health – some of which can be as bad or worse than the allergy symptoms themselves. Among the long list of potential side effects...
Baking Soda: 23 Uses for Your Health and Home
It sits in my cupboard, probably much like yours — a cheap box of what is better known as the go-to fridge and freezer deodorizer. Yes, you might also cook with it, but I bet you didn't know there are a gazillion ways to put sodium bicarbonate to work in your home. It seems that I find new uses...
Essential Oils For Every Type of Headache
Headaches are all too common. Nearly all of us experience them at some point, and many suffer from repetitive headache disorders. Up to one in 20 adults lives with a headache daily. The National Headache Foundation estimates that over 45 million Americans deal with chronic, recurring headaches. Headaches can be caused many different ways, with over 150 diagnostic categories established....
Flavored E-Cigarettes the New and Deadly “Candy”
The results of the 2014 National Youth Tobacco Survey provided some startling statistics about the smoking habits of today's youth. It was revealed that 2.5 million U.S. middle and high school students are using e-cigarettes or vaping, as it is also called. Vaping on the Rise According to the data compiled from 20,000 schoolchildren in the CDC's annual youth tobacco survey,...
Science Shows That Men Lose Their Memory Before Women
While decline in memory function is something that happens to everyone with age, it has been shown that it happens earlier to men. At the Mayo Clinic and Foundation in Minnesota, a recent study was conducted on a group of 1,246 participants between the ages of 30 and 95. The purpose of the study was to reach a better...
A Noninvasive Way to Control Prosthetics with the Power of Your Mind
Scientists at the University of Houston developed a wearable "thinking cap" that can externally monitor brain activity from outside the scalp. The thinking cap is essentially an electroencephalogram (EEG) brain monitoring machine. This brain-machine interface (BMI) analyzes and interprets brain waves and converts them into mechanical movement through the prosthetic limbs. For example, if a patient is thinking about a...
Lowe’s Nixes Neonicotinoids: The Significance of this Decision
There has recently been an announcement of good news for our environment, which may end up being quite far-reaching: The large home improvement chain, Lowe's, has announced it will phase out the sale of neonicotinoid pesticides, including those plants and products treated with them, by 2019. Lowe's decision to put an end to its sale of these products follows Home...
